For more than ten years, NSLS-II have provided Debian packages for many EPICS parts and tools to the community as a public repository. The packaging effort is shared and hosted at GitHub's epicsdeb organization. Following recent changes at BNL and the departure of key persons, this established collaboration is at risk.
Other institutes have been packaging for RHEL, but as more or less...
How much work would it take to support the PV Access and/or Channel Access protocols over IPv6, and how urgently are they needed? This talk may have more questions than answers, but US DOE Laboratories are being required to adopt IPv6 or to request a waiver. It won't be too long before new experimental control systems will have to run on IPv6-only networks, so to survive in that era EPICS...
EPICS IOCs at Diamond Light Source are built, deployed, and managed by a set of in-house tools that were implemented 15 years ago. This paper will detail a proof of concept to demonstrate replacing these legacy tools and processes with modern industry standards.
IOCs are packaged in containers with their unique dependencies included. A layered approach to container design ensures that disk...
Recent developments and future plans for EPICS Base from the EPICS Core Developer's Group.
